The purpose of this volume says John Coburn is to help you pray and grow in your personal religious life. It is a book about your inner life and your relationship with God. Although this relationship is unique for each person, there is a general way in which God deals with us and through which we respond. This book is concerned with this general pattern.

Chapters include:

• Prayer is Response to God


• Be Yourself and Begin with Where You Are


• Clearing the Ground: When, Where, and How to Pray


• The Foundation Stones of Prayer: Adoration, Thanksgiving, Confession, Intercession, Petition


• The House that Prayer Builds: Prayers that You Think, that You Feel, that You Will


• Progress in Prayer: Practicing the Presence of God; Reading, Prayer Groups, Retreats; a Rule of Life; On Beginning Again


• Mature Personal Religion: Action and Worship


• On Suffering and Joy